Today has been a very special day for me. I received the Articles of Organization from my lawyer this morning, and as of yesterday my sole proprietorship is now Soccermetrics Research & Consulting, LLC. A lot has happened on the business and technical side since January; I've appeared at the big sports analytics conference in […]
And now, to complete the Pythagorean tables for the top five European leagues. Here is the final table for Serie A: Team GP GF GA Pts Pythag +/- Internazionale 38 75 34 82 77 +5 Roma 38 68 41 80 69 +11 Milan 38 60 39 70 66 +4 Sampdoria 38 49 41 67 57 […]
Here's the final Pythagorean table for the French league. It might be useful to compare this table to a similar one taken at the halfway mark of the season. Team GP GF GA Pts Pythag +/- Marseille 38 69 36 78 73 +5 Lyon 38 64 38 72 69 +3 Auxerre 38 42 29 71 […]
To continue the Opta mini-theme, here is a video that explains how they compile their match statistics and how they are preparing for the World Cup this summer. (I tried to embed it into this post, but it wouldn't work for me.) One thing that struck me when viewing that video was how labor-intensive the […]
Opta compiles a fairly extensive set of in-match statistics in the major European leagues as well as the pan-European club competitions. They've prepared a comparative survey of in-match performance over a season in the English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German top divisions, as well as the European Champions League. There are some interesting findings from […]
And now for something that is not Soccer Pythagorean related…Billy Beane, the subject of the book that spawned the field of sports analytics, will appear at the Leaders in Performance conference in London in October. He will give one of the keynote speeches to the conference which will consist of close to 300 coaches, managers, […]
Once you start, it's hard to stop…Here are the Pythagorean expectations for La Liga. I'm curious to see how it handles the hugely lopsided scoring records of Real Madrid and Barcelona. Team GP GF GA Pts Pythag +/- Barcelona 38 98 24 99 92 +7 Real Madrid 38 102 35 96 86 +10 Valencia 38 […]
Here is the final Pythagorean table for this season's German Bundesliga: Team GP GF GA Pts Pythag +/- Bayern Munich 34 72 31 70 71 -1 Schalke 04 34 53 31 65 61 +4 Werder Bremen 34 71 40 61 65 -4 Bayer Leverkusen 34 65 38 59 63 -4 Borussia Dortmund 34 54 42 […]
There are a few more Pythagorean tables that I should present in the interests of completeness. Here are the final results for the Turkish Super Lig: Team GP GF GA Pts Pythag +/- Bursaspor 34 65 26 75 71 +4 Fenerbahçe 34 61 28 74 68 +6 Galatasaray 34 61 35 64 63 +1 Beşiktaş […]
It's been about a month since my most recent post related to the Football Match Result Database, so I'd like to give an update on what I've been doing since then.In March I bought a book on relational database design and completed a specifications document for the FMRD. In April I bought another book and […]
